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Almost certainly, the most frequently-asked question for our Reference staff is "Do we have this journal?"
If you want to know if you have access to online and/or printed forms of articles in a particular periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper), start with the Periodical Finder on the library home page.
The Periodical Finder will tell you if we have printed volumes (via Annie) and/or if we have access to online issues through one or more subscription databases, as well as letting you know what years/volumes are available.
For more details, see this page.
If you have questions, please contact Dick Grefe.
Columbia Journalism Review.
Available online.
Current media criticism from the Columbia Journalism Review. Under another name, this site originally was designed to provide criticism and analysis of press coverage of the 2004 political campaigns in the U.S.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
New Strategist / NetLibrary.
Available online. Older editions are available in printed form in the library collection.
This e-book is the newest edition of a compilation of data derived from U.S. Government agencies and other sources, with information on U.S. women's education, health, income, and other categories.
A link will be maintained on several library Web pages, including here.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Available online
"Comprehensive guide to open government laws in the 50 states and the District of Columbia...
a collection of easy-to-maneuver outlines addressing key components of open records and open meetings laws.”
A link will be maintained on this Uniaversity Library page.
Annie has a new procedure for monitoring the books and videos you checked out from Washington and Lee University libraries.
You also can use this list to renew any or all of the checked-out items (with some limitations).
Annie's main menu includes a link to Login to View Your Library Record.
Click on that link and you will be presented with two choices, one of which is "W&L Students, Faculty, and Staff."
To view the list of materials you have checked out:
* Enter your Novell (campus network) username and password. (Please note that this is the recent change in procedure.)
* Click on Login.
* The following screen will include several options in a small blue box, including one headed "[x] Items Currently Checked Out." Click on that link and you can see the list of items we believe you have checked out.
Please note that you can arrange this list by due-date (particularly useful for videos) and to renew materials.
If you have questions, you can contact Dick Grefe.
Council of State Governments.
Shelved at the Reference Desk: REF JK 2403.B72 2006
The 2006 edition of this respected annually-published volume provides an overview of issues and events affecting U.S. state governments, including state-by-state data tables, as well as essays on such topics as "State Business Incentives" and "Women in State Governments: Trends and Issues."
Institute for Women's Policy Research.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
"This report analyzes employment in the seven largest Communications and Media industries: Wired Telecommunications, Radio/TV/Cable Broadcasting, Wireless Telecommunications, Newspaper Publishing, Motion Pictures/Video Production, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and Other Information Services. The report examines recent changes in overall employment levels in these industries, and then details earnings, unionization, and employment, for all workers and for women and people of color in particular.”
This paper, and others from the IWPR, are accessible through PolicyFile.
New Yorker
Available online. Printed copy in Leyburn Library.
Article in the latest issue of the New Yorker by the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University takes a fairly dim view of "citizen journalism."
Southern Political Science Association.
Available online. Printed copy shelved in the Leyburn Library Current Periodicals section.
This article in the August 2006 issue of the Journal of Politics addresses the question "To what degree has the use of television contributed to the increasing importance/value of incumbency in U.S. House of Representatives elections?"
A link will be maintained in Annie.
Please note that W&L students and faculty can opt to have the tables of contents (and complete articles) of new issues of the Journal of Politics automatically delivered to them by RSS feed. If you are interested, please contact Dick Grefe.
U.S. Army War College.
Available online. A printed copy will be added to the collection.
"This paper compares how Al-Jazeera reports news events, particularly in Iraq and in Afghanistan, to how the U.S. news media reports the same story... The intent is to use examples of reporting by both Al-Jazeera and Western media sources, compare the differences, and touch on the cultural as well! as strategic influences of how messages are shaping the War of ideas or information campaign. "
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Available online. A printed copy will be added to the library collection.
Latest biennial survey on the sources of news for contemporary Americans. One finding is that "Americans’ use of traditional sources of news has continued to decline and the internet as a news source has continued to rise, though both trends have moderated."
A link will be maintained on this Leyburn Library page.
New Strategist / NetLibrary.
Available online only.
The fifth edition (2006) of this volume contains detailed estimates and projections of the U.S. population by race and Hispanic origin, the latest socioeconomic data on blacks, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, plus updated information on American Indians. Most data come from U.S. Government sources. This updated edition is an "electronic book" form of a title we previously purchased in paper form.
Links will be maintained in Annie and on several Leyburn Library Web pages, including here.